Human Target's second season premiere drew a series low for Fox on Wednesday night, early viewing figures show.

Chance and Guerrero's rescue mission, picking up from last year's action-packed season finale, was seen by just 6.62m, a substantial drop on its 7m plus audience earlier this year.

Hell's Kitchen followed on the Murdoch network with 5.87m, while on The CW, America's Next Top Model and Hellcats grabbed 2.5m and 2.06m respectively.

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Over on ABC, Modern Family hit 12m at 9pm, boosting Cougar Town to 7.13m at 9.30pm, after which one-off documentary 25 Years Of Sexy: People's Sexiest Man Alive mustered just 4.16m.

Earlier on the Alphabet network, The Middle and Better With You notched up 9.19m and 7.03m, ahead of an NBC Dateline special on the Royal Engagement in Britain which had 6.7m. Survivor won the 8pm hour for CBS with 12.01m.

From 9pm, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: LA fetched 7.63m and 7.84m for the Peacock network, while Criminal Minds and The Defenders delivered 14.29m and 9.37m to CBS.